Opinion

Dear Editor, I write in response to a letter written by Help & Shelter and published in the SN on February 15 (‘The Ministers of Education and Human Services should say what they are doing about the sexual abuse of students by teachers’). 

Dear Editor, I want to commend you and say thank you for your reflective and refreshing editorial on Muhammad Ali, in your January 20 edition, captioned ‘Muhammad Ali’s greatness.’ 

Dear Editor, While one admires the boundless energy and optimism of the Minister of National Resources and Environment, one would hope that he reflects on the unfulfilled optimism with which he transitioned from his previous portfolio, and particularly the unachieved targets set for the sugar industry as a whole, and the Skeldon Complex in particular.

Thursday’s Cartoon

Given the hype that usually preceded the former Minister of Health, and followed him as well, the revelation in the 2010 Auditor General’s Report, tabled in Parliament last week, that nearly $40 million in expired drugs had to be destroyed was shocking, even more so when it was made clear that there was still a large quantity of expired stock on hand pending processing and destruction.

Politikles

Dear Editor, A policeman at the Sans Souci Police station in Wakenaam bluntly refused to take a report from me concerning my 18-year-old daughter who was the victim of domestic violence.

Dear Editor, About three weeks ago, in the Sunday Times, there was a story about the establishment of the Santa Rosa Secondary School in Moruka.

Dear Editor, In an SN letter of Feb 20, it was noted that Minister of Agriculture Ramsammy in his claims of misrepresentation by SN attempted to refute the paper’s critical reporting on the poor drainage of coastal areas over the past several years.

Dear Editor, On January 26 I travelled to Guyana and when my black ink pen malfunctioned, I used the only other available pen – red ink – to fill the immigration entry form. 

Dear Editor, Having read the comments in a letter to your newspaper dated Saturday February 18 (‘Too big an increase in bread price’), we would like to first thank our patrons, and in particular Ms J Braithwaite, for their support over the years. Over

Dear Editor, I wish to respond quickly to a letter by Mr Imtiaz Baccus that appeared in your publication of Monday February 20 captioned ‘Why did NCN in Berbice not show cricket?’

Dear Editor, Certain things are more evident than others, since we can see them clearly, but there are those things which we cannot see, eg, expensive contracts to do work below water such as at Nos 1&2 Canals Polder and the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC).

Dear Editor, We must admit that dealing with the elderly either within the family or in an institution is quite a task. 

Dear Editor, In all my years of sitting on boards and committees in the private sector and local government in the United Kingdom with responsibility for spending millions of pounds sterling, I have never heard such nonsense coming from a Finance Minister.

Since the visit of President Richard Nixon and his then National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger to Beijing in February 1972 and the subsequent re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the Peoples Republic of China and the United States, both sides have seemed careful not to act in any manner that would lead to the possibility of a breach in those relations and the extensive network of  economic ties that they have established over the years.

Politikles

Dear Editor, One of the greatest insults to the present rule of the PPP has to be the fact that that pariah of 24 years of dictatorship, hardship, corruption and economic destitution known as the PNC and now  APNU can legitimately and rightly attack the PPP for all its shameful shenanigans.

Dear Editor, I was involved in the planning and execution of Mash for the period 2000 to 2003 and I have a very good idea of what it entails, but what I saw over the last two days left a very bad taste in my mouth.

Dear Editor, In an SN article, ‘Haier announces plans for assembly plant, $10M industrial park,’ (February 18), it was disclosed that the Chinese firm, Haier Electrical Appliances Limited, is looking to build a plant that will assemble laptops and computers, and some Guyanese seemed to welcome the news as a sign of development.